Definitively no photo blogging with the Blackberry pearl…

January 11th, 2007


Wilfred with the iPhone….
Photo by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten.

My contact at Vodafone just contacted me with some bad news. RIM told him that the current version of the Blackberry Pearl Software does not support attaching photos to emails. The current release is still in beta (4.2.1).

I was sure that this was a Vodafone trick to charge me for the photo sending. Now it seems that the problems lies with the Pearl software.

So maybe I should wait for the iPhone after all?

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7 Responses to “Definitively no photo blogging with the Blackberry pearl…”

  1. Yme Bosma on January 12, 2007 9:23 am (9:23)

    I’m testing a Pearl as well at the moment and will try some third party apps this weekend. Did you try one of thosealready? I’m sure email with attachment should be possible when you do not use to standard RIM client.

  2. Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on January 12, 2007 10:20 am (10:20)

    Thanks Yme, I checked all of the applications in telecommunications but none of them seem to offer the solution I’m hoping for. But I’m not giving up! There MUST be a solution somewhere…

  3. Mike Elgan on January 15, 2007 6:57 pm (18:57)

    I just took a photo with my BlackBerry Pearl, opened up an e-mail message, attached the photo and sent it to myself — and received it.

    I’m on Cingular — photo attachments work fine.

    Mike Elgan

  4. Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on January 16, 2007 11:11 am (11:11)

    Hi Mike, Vodafone told me that it was a Blackberry Software problem. If you are able to send photos via email on Congular that would mean that it isn’t a software problem but a vendor problem after all.

    How did you attach thew photo to your email? My menu, when I’m writing an email. only hows the option to attache an address. When I’m in photo mode I can only select ’send as MMS’ or ‘Send Using Bluetooth’.

  5. Ymerce » Blog Archive » De BlackBerry Pearl, kopen? on January 22, 2007 9:31 am (9:31)

    [...] Wat wel direct opvalt is alles gericht is dat op het versturen van email en SMS berichten. Andere functionaliteiten zijn secundair. Dat maakt multitasken dan ook lastig, iets dat ik zelf veel doe. Muziek luisteren, foto’s maken, bloggen, browsen, het gaat wat lastig samen wanneer je kijkt naar de user interface. Om over TomTom nog maar niet te spreken, dat draait niet op de Pearl. Al lijkt Google daar een goed alternatief te zijn… [...]

  6. Tony Kim on February 1, 2007 5:52 pm (17:52)

    I am also unable to attach a photo to an email, as I can’t find the option. I am on the Rogers network.

  7. Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on February 1, 2007 10:39 pm (22:39)

    Hi Tony; It seems to be a Blackberry OS problem. There is a newer version which does offer this functionality but not all operators offer it yet.

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